Occupy Oakland - May Day Strike To Shut Down Ferry Service

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  1. skip

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    UPDATE 11/14: Occupy Oakland has been cleared out! Police moved in before daybreak and started to clear out the camp. 32 arrests so far, no violence.

    Also http://www.occupystreams.org/, the one site that linked to all the live Occupy videostreams has had its account suspended!

    This makes me think this week's police actions against Occupy camps is a FEDERALLY COORDINATED ACTION!

    If so people need to start focusing on the OBAMA administration next!

    UPDATE 11/2: General Strike in Oakland shuts down Port of Oakland. Protesters occupy Oscar Grant Plaza, halting all traffic.

    The Oakland Mayor ordered police to clear the Occupy encampment in downtown. The police came out in force using Tear Gas and LRAD, a new non-lethal acoustic device that sends out painful waves of sound.

    Apparently other LE agencies are involved as CHP officers, and from all over the Bay area are there. In fact there appear to be more officers there than Oakland has on its force!

    There are hundreds of police and they have cordoned off the entire downtown Oakland area and are telling people not to go to work or open their business.

    Meanwhile more and more people are showing up to protest this police action. The scene is very "fluid" at the moment. People are very angry, and Oakland, being Oakland is very PRONE TO VIOLENCE.

    This isn't over yet! I'm tempted to go down there myself to protest this repression of our civil rights!

    Global Revolution is covering this LIVE right now!
     
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    Oakland Mayor's Office phone #
    510 238-3141

    Call her!

    Amazingly her answering machine not only is in English & Spanish but two Chinese dialects too (the mayor is Asian)

    The police are harassing the guy doing the Live Feed at this moment...
     
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    They will stir up an uprising that they can't control !!!!!
     
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    The live feed people got into the press conference that should start soon.
     
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    The US Declaration of Independence states:
    In general, we are allowed to PEACEFULLY assemble. Once it's no longer peaceful, anything goes!

    But the question is always, who resorts to violence first? The protesters, the police, or the agent-provocateurs?

    With cameras going all the time, it will be easier to find out and prosecute those who turn a peaceful protest into a riot, no matter who they might be.
     
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    Press Conference: They're saying the LRAD was deployed but not used. They say there were no injuries during the operation. They're very LUCKY!

    Oakland PD is notorious for resorting to violence when it's not even necessary. They've killed so many people for no good reason. So in Oakland they have very little respect for the police force. This could erupt, and would've had there been any violence on the part of police.

    The Mayor is not even in the city at the moment.
     
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    The evening news showed the Oakland pigs attacking the occupy settlement in front of City Hall and breaking it up.

    Police Dismantle Occupy Oakland

    75 arrested; police fire tear gas cannisters.
    By Shoshana Walter on October 25, 2011

    Occupy Oakland, the tent city protest that began two weeks ago as an extension of the national Occupy protest movement, was removed from the city's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza early Tuesday morning after some 400 police officers swept into the encampment.

    Police said they arrested 75 people. City workers are now sifting through piles of belongings left in the 150-tent camp,which had swelled to hundreds of people. Police began to move on a smaller Occupy encampment at Snow Park around 6:30 a.m.

    There were no injuries to police or protesters and "minimal property damage," Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan said. "I'm very pleased with the way things went," Jordan said.

    "People are welcome to come back and exercise their rights," but they are not allowed to camp in the plaza, he said.

    More than 400 officers from the Oakland Police Department and 15 area agencies, including from Vacaville, Hayward and the California Highway Patrol, surrounded the encampment on all sides about 4:45 a.m. Tuesday, easily outnumbering about 200 protesters and overwhelming makeshift barricades built from wooden planks, dumpsters and even dirty couches.

    It appears police accidentally deployed tear gas cannisters and directed them at fellow officers, witnesses said.

    [​IMG]

    According to Jordan, the protesters were from all over the country. Most were arrested for misdemeanors. There were no children found in the camp, Jordan said.
     
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    All live feeds went down, including the local new chopper cam. Word on twitter now is that riot police gave 5 minute warning then started tear gas and flash bangs.
     
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytMNoKNeRA"]Tear gas! Thrown at Occupy Oakland! - YouTube
     
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSenbFKPl-A"]Occupy Oakland march - Video #2 - YouTube
     
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    They got gassed, (the videos I posted)... they retreated, regrouped, went back again... and they just got gassed again...
     
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    This is uncivilized.. These are American citizens..
     
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    Holy fucking out of control police.

    I don't think you can walk in and arrest people because some are camping, and then say you're free to be there and not camp. Lots of people protest and sleep in their own bed at night.

    Given that police trying so hard to repress a movement that's also being written off as unimportant makes a lot of people look, and some join, I would think ALL police around the country would have been ordered to stand off and do nothing unless a riot started, after the large bridge arrest.

    *edit* this is probably a dumb idea, but there should be a movement to buy surplus gas masks for occupiers. Sitting down in a cloud of tear gas waiting to be arrested would mean a LOT on TV...... They also could consider those pipes you cuff yourselves to each other in, so that cops can't move you without either cutting your arms off, or very delicate painstaking pipe cutting work. There's plans for them in "recipes for disaster: an anarchist cookbook" (a book on direct action and resistance by crimethINC)

    Also, I think karma+oakland's violent nature will deliver lead to any officer who shot rubber at peaceful people.
     
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    UPDATE: Over 100 arrests in Oakland yesterday! The police launched tear gas at least five different times as the demonstrators dispersed, then returned...

    I was able to watch this scene play out live on local Oakland TV. However KTVU lost its audio for the entire Occupy report at 10PM and it only recovered the audio after the report, at the start of the weather. They did follow up at the end of the show with more video and audio, but what we never got to hear was the protesters being interviewed about what was going on. BTW, KTVU is the local FOX affiliate.

    There was absolutely no mention of the loss of audio, and their anchors' mouths were moving but nothing was coming out for like 15 minutes! I've never seen a live show lose audio like that for so long without any kind of acknowledgement of the problem. It's like the studio didn't even know its audio was down.

    I had heard earlier in the day how coverage of events had been blacked out locally in the South Bay area.

    Notice how the media is just allowing this censorship to take place without any kind of response!

    Another problem with the Oakland protests is that they didn't just release people after their arrests and bookings. They held them all day and nite as far as I know, so they couldn't return to the protests.
     
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    Here's video of them raiding the encampment early in the morning:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96RNERoraLc"]Dozens Arrested at Occupy Oakland as Police Raid Encampment, Tear Down Tents - YouTube

    Here's video of what happened last night when protesters attempted to reenter the park where they had been camping in downtown Oakland.

    Police Use Tear Gas on Occupy Oakland, 100+ arrested!

    The BART police evacuated the station that you see in this video, causing all the passengers to go right into the tear gas, so a lot of non-protesters got gassed too!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QngE6kKk8Lg"]Occupy Oakland video: Riot police fire tear gas, flashbang grenades - YouTube
     
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